Synonym: bit, character, disposition, fiber, finish, nature, particle, plant, seed, speck, temper, tendency, texture. Similar words: grains, grained, migraine, rain, drain, rainy, brain, train. Meaning: [greɪn] 
n. 1. a small hard particle 2. foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses 3. a weight unit used for pearls or diamonds: 50 mg or 1/4 carat 4. 1/60 dram; equals an avoirdupois grain or 64.799 milligrams 5. 1/7000 pound; equals a troy grain or 64.799 milligrams 6. dry seedlike fruit produced by the cereal grasses: e.g. wheat, barley, Indian corn 7. the direction or texture of fibers found in wood or leather or stone or in a woven fabric. v. 1. thoroughly work in 2. paint (a surface) to make it look like stone or wood 3. form into grains 4. become granular.
n. 1. a small hard particle 2. foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses 3. a weight unit used for pearls or diamonds: 50 mg or 1/4 carat 4. 1/60 dram; equals an avoirdupois grain or 64.799 milligrams 5. 1/7000 pound; equals a troy grain or 64.799 milligrams 6. dry seedlike fruit produced by the cereal grasses: e.g. wheat, barley, Indian corn 7. the direction or texture of fibers found in wood or leather or stone or in a woven fabric. v. 1. thoroughly work in 2. paint (a surface) to make it look like stone or wood 3. form into grains 4. become granular. 
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121. Summer grain production this year has fallen by nearly 10 %, according to the ministry of agriculture.
122. Farmers fled to work as itinerant merchants; the amount of cultivated grain land shrank from 12,350 acres to less than 5,000.
123. It has asked for certification from the United States that grain shipped there is from areas free of karnal bunt.
124. This was later changed to requisitioning fixed amounts of grain, which often went beyond taking surpluses.
125. This irrigation system supports large-scale grain production as well as a dense rurally based population.
126. During the 18th century land was cheap, grain was plentiful, and meat was abundant.
127. A wise woman puts a grain of sugar in everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her. Helen Rowland 
128. Instead of a family farm raising potatoes and grain, they also own the horse-breeding farm of their dreams.
129. No purple mountain majesty there and no alabaster city, just waves of grain and the Co-op Elevator.
130. Prices are rising because of a drought and the escalating cost of grain for cattle feed.
131. It was a gross exaggeration, but there was a grain of truth in it.
132. In January 1990 delays in Soviet grain deliveries had led to price rises and the tighter rationing of basic foodstuffs.
133. And he pushed Philip, knocking the polythene bag of grain out of his hand.
134. A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away. George Eliot
135. Latest export statistics show Britain's grain trade with foreign competitors drastically reduced - while imports are rising.
136. Thus pigeons learn patterns of pecking behaviour by being given grain; students learn patterns of language behaviour by being given approval.
137. He said he had to conduct some business with the grain merchant.
138. Other import duties fell on sugar, tobacco, timber, silk, iron bars and, in some years, grain.
139. Most of the cases affected rural families where children slept near stored grain that investigators believed was contaminated with the fungus.
140. She almost choked on the stench of damp grain blowing up the hill.
141. Our rural ancestors, with little blest, Patient of labour when the end was rest, Indulged the day that housed their annual grain, With feasts, and off'rings,[www.Sentencedict.com] and a thankful strain. Alexander Pope
142. Reasonable texture and bland, if slightly uncooked, taste. Wholemeal flour contains wholewheat grain with nothing taken out.
143. The gospels commend faith the size of a grain of mustard seed.
144. And where they are faced with just one or two possible buyers for their grain?
145. Firstly, because it goes against its grain: women always have to find their own way to where they're going.
146. In their simplest forms these classifications indicate average grain size, and the degree and form of the spread around that average.
147. How can we have grain without oxen to plough the fields?
148. Waves of grain, fruited plains, dispossessed people, tears of rage.
149. The tramway carried sacks of grain directly to the mill's main entrance.
150. Nature conservation runs against the grain of current political doctrine.